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call?

Debbie said it was devastating to watch her daughter spend 10 months in isolation, where everyone had to wear gloves and a mask. At that time, she said, doctors would not do a bone marrow transplant without an identical match. That all changed when Dr. Erwin Gelfand, immunologist-in-chief at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, made a radical and risky move by harvesting the marrow from Kiela's father, Randy."The first transplant, Kiela kicked him out of her system," her mother said. "She ended up getting sick with a bunch of diseases and pneumonia. We had some really close calls with her."

Re: call?

Originally Posted by jctgf

Debbie said it was devastating to watch her daughter spend 10 months in isolation, where everyone had to wear gloves and a mask. At that time, she said, doctors would not do a bone marrow transplant without an identical match. That all changed when Dr. Erwin Gelfand, immunologist-in-chief at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, made a radical and risky move by harvesting the marrow from Kiela's father, Randy."The first transplant, Kiela kicked him out of her system," her mother said. "She ended up getting sick with a bunch of diseases and pneumonia. We had some really close calls with her."

Re: call?

No, because the meaning of "close call" is when you come extremely close to a dangerous or unpleasant situation or only just manage to avoid it: "I had a close call this morning when a car ran off the road and onto the sidewalk. It only just missed me".